This autopsy of an unfinished 1964 film by the great French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (The Wages of Fear) holds fascinations — and frustrations — for the avid franco-cinephile. Influenced by 8½, Clouzot intended to make manifest the thoughts of a jealous husband (Serge Reggiani) by using expressionistic visuals and an experimental sound design. His widow gave documentarians Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea access to 15 cans of filmed scenes (with no sound) plus wardrobe and make-up tests. In addition to clips, there are interviews with surviving crew members, who describe an ambitious auteur surrounded by a dream team of talent but unable to communicate to them his vision. The more garish features of that vision — such as mercurial female lead Romy Schneider seen wearing blue lipstick — are abundant, but the documentary is short on evidence that Inferno would have been a memorable drama and not just another ’60s bum trip.

REVIEW: IDENTITY THIEF | February 20, 2013 Seth Gordon directs this funny, though formulaic, mismatched-duo comedy in which Jason Bateman's straight-laced family man must nab Melissa McCarthy, the identity thief who has ruined his credit, and haul her from Florida to Denver for prosecution.

REVIEW: THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS: LIVE ACTION AND ANIMATED | January 30, 2013 Highlights of the live-action shorts include the beautifully direct performances by Somali refugees in "Asad," a contemporary story (with folkloric undertones) of a boy who wants to be a pirate; the del Toro–esque fantasy setting of "Death of a Shadow"; the blend of dark comedy and gritty drama in the New York story of a little girl and her black-sheep uncle, "Curfew"; and the warmth of memory giving way to cold reality for an elderly man in "Henry."

REVIEW: A LIAR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY | January 25, 2013 The discovery of tapes of Graham Chapman reading from his 1980 A Liar’s Autobiography has made it possible for the expired Monty Python member to star, posthumously, in his own biopic.

REVIEW: PARENTAL GUIDANCE | January 02, 2013 Billy Crystal and Bette Midler star in what could have been a decent comedy, if director Andy Fickman hadn't made it such a tearjerker.